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Outsourcing’s next wave: media

July 21, 2008 – 6:05 pm

TweetEver heard of companies like Mindworks Global Media, Express KCS, or Affinity Express? Well, in due course, millions of English speaking newspapers will do. Now, this concerns “only” readers of newspapers such as the San Jose Mercury News, The Miami Herald, or the Orange Country Register, to name just a few. In these newspapers, significant [...]

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The J-curve of the global print press

July 7, 2008 – 5:55 pm

TweetThe J-curve is an economics metaphor, a way of saying things will get worse before getting better. That’s the prospect for the global print media sector. For the American press, advertising revenue keeps dropping at a steady yearly rate of 12% to 15%. No industry can withstand a sustained double-digit decrease of its core business. [...]

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Throwing a lifeline to an endangered species, print?

June 16, 2008 – 6:10 pm

TweetCEO Eric Schmidt spoke in San Francisco, at an event hosted in San Francisco by Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications. There, he addressed the collapse of advertising revenue in print media: “It’s a huge moral imperative to help here”. Schmidt didn’t provide any detail on how the search company could throw a lifeline [...]

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Steve Ballmer sees the end of media paper within 10 years

June 9, 2008 – 6:20 am

TweetAsked about his outlook for the future of media by the Washington Post, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer answered this: “In the next 10 years, the whole world of media, communications and advertising are going to be turned upside down — my opinion. Here are the premises I have. Number one, there will be no media [...]

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Times of India: let’s grow the market together

June 2, 2008 – 6:27 am

TweetTalk with India media executives is always instructive and fascinating. Few weeks ago at the INMA Congress in Beverly Hills, I sat down with Bhaskar Das executive president of the Times of India in charge of marketing. The Times of India is the largest English language newspaper in the world: 4m copies for 16 editions. [...]

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